It's not the power of code, it's the creativity of solving meaningful problems through the code. The benefit of a car isn't a faster horse, it's what it spurred as result. Suburbs wouldn't have happened without it. The highway infrastructure, the sprawl, the mobility, all impossible. That's the power of technology, and that's the power you'll give each of us by enabling us, at least on a fundamental level, to code our own solutions. [We are Code Academy].

The whole "everyone should learn programming" meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012. A noble gesture to garner the NYC tech community vote, for sure, but if the mayor of New York City actually needs to sling JavaScript co...